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I admire Prust as much as the next fan does, and I agree that his influence is priceless. But statistically there is absolutely no touching the immense supremacy of Subban each and every time he is on the ice.

If, ex hypothesi, a Hab fan, forced to choose between losing Subban or Prust, chose to let Subban go, on the belief that Prust was ‘the more valuable player, then that Hab fan would harm us immensely, help the team obtaining Subban probably to a Cup, and would, in short, be making decisions from emotion not reason.

Os Bautista a Mexican? From what I saw the Mexican guy signallled the pitcher to hit the batter and the Canadians responded. Good on”em! They learned the hard way our Lads are raised on hockey. Too funny!

I found his public support of that interesting. I can understand where he is coming from, but given all the good P.R. the team has going on, why not sidestep the question rather than risk alienating the fans.

TSN: Rangers-Caps game story: “About three hours after asking for more respect from NHL officials, Alex Ovechkin was called for two penalties within seconds of each other, leading to a pair of goals that put the New York Rangers ahead for good Sunday in a 4-1 win over the Washington Capitals. ”

This makes me wonder why the NHL refs don’t resent Mr. Dunkin’ Donuts publicly scolding them for not calling embellishments. You would think that some of them would have been offended by his accusations. It would be nice to see at least a few of those refs stand up to Julien and give him a taste of his own medicine by clamping down on his Olympic diving team with yellow and black swimsuits. There must be a few of them out there that still take pride in their work.

Given the Caps’ position in the standings and pending UFA status, I think Matt Hendricks would be a good addition. The guy can really throw ‘em and he can play regular minutes. Currently plays with Ovi, or did today anyway.

It will be interesting to see how the Habs perform without their “emotional sparkplug” as Mike Boone called Prust. That’s emotional, not physical. Will Armstrong, White and Moen come to play? They will have to do it by committee. Florida has some big boys on their roster. Yonkman is 6’6″, 255.

Prust getting injured is a big loss hopefully the diagnosis is accurate and he will only miss 10 days. If he does indeed only miss 10 days that means he will only miss 4 games (Panthers, Sens, Devils and Sabres) and I think we will do fine without him against those teams.